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Rose...are there thorns?
Mar. 7th, 2005 08:29 pmSo the first new Doctor Who on telelvision starts in the UK in about two and a half weeks. There's still no news of an Australian station picking it up (though someone swore to me the ABC have it, though if so I can't understand why they wouldn't have announced it). And then this:
I actually found it an agonising decision, but I fired up some P2P software and entered "Doctor Who Rose" into the search field, not really believing it was true.
But it is. It was there. 71 sources. It could start accumulating on my hard drive at any minute. And yet I hesitate.
Why? Others I know have downloaded whole series of Stargate, Battlestar Galactica, Lost. I even had a shot for the first first episodes of Buffy season five - though I stopped. Why? And why does it feel so wrong to reach out and take it?
Doctor Who is special to me in a way that really, when I analyse it, makes no sense. Is it because I grew up with it? Is it because I see something in it that I see nowhere else, that makes me want to rise to every stupid cliched account of its creaky sets and rubbish monsters as if that was all it ever was? Is it because if I just download it like I would some obscure episode of an old never-to-be repeated cartoon, or a film clip I'll never find on DVD, or some piece of software illegally hacked, that I put it in the same pile, that I'm showing it no respect?
I don't know. It's sitting there in the queue, bits will soon form a cohesive mass of data that my computer will translate into the audio and visual of a legend born again, and I feel uneasy about it.
Perhaps I'm the only person I know who feels odd about this sort of thing. But it's something to talk about in LiveJournal, isn't it?
The rumor mills have been working overtime this weekend on news that the first episode of the series, "Rose," has been leaked on the internet, courtesy an unidentified employee of a foreign broadcaster of the show. Obviously, Outpost Gallifrey isn't going to tell you how or where to download it, but don't be surprised if you find reviews all over the web. - Outpost Gallifrey, March 6
I actually found it an agonising decision, but I fired up some P2P software and entered "Doctor Who Rose" into the search field, not really believing it was true.
But it is. It was there. 71 sources. It could start accumulating on my hard drive at any minute. And yet I hesitate.
Why? Others I know have downloaded whole series of Stargate, Battlestar Galactica, Lost. I even had a shot for the first first episodes of Buffy season five - though I stopped. Why? And why does it feel so wrong to reach out and take it?
Doctor Who is special to me in a way that really, when I analyse it, makes no sense. Is it because I grew up with it? Is it because I see something in it that I see nowhere else, that makes me want to rise to every stupid cliched account of its creaky sets and rubbish monsters as if that was all it ever was? Is it because if I just download it like I would some obscure episode of an old never-to-be repeated cartoon, or a film clip I'll never find on DVD, or some piece of software illegally hacked, that I put it in the same pile, that I'm showing it no respect?
I don't know. It's sitting there in the queue, bits will soon form a cohesive mass of data that my computer will translate into the audio and visual of a legend born again, and I feel uneasy about it.
Perhaps I'm the only person I know who feels odd about this sort of thing. But it's something to talk about in LiveJournal, isn't it?
